Boss's assistant demands employee stop over-documenting, employee proves they followed her exact instructions, boss takes employee's side: ‘She is getting what she asked for’

Don't you love it when people at work ask things of you, without really knowing what they are asking for?Every workplace has at least one person who does everything to work as little as possible, even if it means piling the work onto someone else. The less they have to do, the better, which often leads them to make some weird requests of their colleagues. The question is, should the colleagues comply, or should they refuse to "help" others ease up their workload?Generally, I don't mind helping my coworkers when they ask for my help with their workload. If there is something I can do to make life easier for them, and as long as it doesn't cost me my whole workday, I usually don't mind giving them a helping hand. The situation usually gets complicated when they start making demands that make no sense to either of us. When that happens, it becomes clear that a helping hand is not really what they truly need. That is the case with the employee and their boss's assistant in the story posted in r/MaliciousCompliance. The boss's assistant seems to want to do as little work as possible, which means that she makes some odd demands to the boss's employee. After she made a mistake, she refus…

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